Feast of Stories

This week we began our ‘Feast of Stories’ project. We have been lucky enough to become involved in this exciting project with four other Redbridge schools.

‘This project explores the cultural heritage of the children in the school and their families. Children working on this project will become story ambassadors and will collect stories from around the school. This theme is largely based on personal experience and will develop as the project goes on depending on the nature of the experiences of the school.’

There will be a large fabric tree which will be attached to the classroom wall. Each child will have their own branch dedicated to their investigation into the story of their own heritage, through story sharing, song, discussing food, families, friends and places. The children have already created self-portraits to attach to their branch.

The first session was to explore story ideas through drama and small groups. The children worked with each other to tell stories.

I’m sure the project will inspire the children to become great storytellers. Watch this space as the project continues…